August 4 marks the anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Haiti (FADH), as we all know them.
On August 4, 1958, President François Duvalier decided to change the name of the military institution following the events of July 29 of that same year, when a small group of men stormed the Dessalines Barracks adjacent to the National Palace, threatening Duvalier’s nascent presidency.
This 1958 name change was the fourth in the 20th century. Gibert Mervilus, a keeper of the military institution’s hi
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